Evidence: | 'Methodist millworker Thomas Wood attended a school where there was only one book, the Bible, which was never read beyond the first chapter of St John. Therefore he later "read everythig I could lay hands on", which was precious little... He worked his way through most of the library at an independent Sunday school, and joined a mechanics' institute for 1 1/2d a week. His reading, though "very heterogenous" and undirected, could be quite intensive, as when he devoted almost a year to the six volumes of Rollin's Ancient History. That "left an impression on my mind which 40 years of wear and tear has not effaced".' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Bingley | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Thomas Wood |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1822 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | millworker |
Religion: | Methodist |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Rollin |
Title: | Ancient History |
Genre: | History |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) mechanics' institute library |
Record ID: | 5015 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 372 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 372, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5015, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
See Thomas Wood "Methodism in Bingley Over 130 Years Ago", Keighley News (10 March 1956, 24 March 1956) |
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